Noun

(en noun)

One who beheads or decapitates.

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 19, author=Dwight Garner, title=Fox Hunter, Party Animal, Leftist Warrior, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Mr. Hunt is so successful at the first goal that the big takeaway of “Marx’s General” may be that Engels, best known as a ruthless party tactician, comes across as the Mario Batali of international communism: a jovial man of outsize appetites who was referred to by his son-in-law as “the great beheader of Champagne bottles.” }}